In his foreign policy, President Pierce successfully negotiated with Britain to gain American fishing rights along the coast of Canada.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Pierce wanted to run for re-election. Many northern Democrats,however, objected to his support of the pro-slavery legislature in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Its titan piers grip ocean floor, Its great steel arms link shore with shore, Its towers pierce the sky.

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Pierce agreed. This week on our series, Ray Freeman and Steve Ember continue the story of the presidency of Franklin Pierce.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

President Pierce had tried to unite the different groups in the party by giving each a representative in his cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

President Pierce agreed. Relations between the Mormons and the government did not improve in the next three years.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

As president in eighteen fifty-three, Pierce was forced to choose between two policies on the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

In putting together his cabinet, President Pierce tried to include men from every group in the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The most difficult national problem facing the administration of President Franklin Pierce was the situation in Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

This week in our series, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith talk about the presidency of Franklin Pierce.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

In nineteen seventy-three,Alice Walker placed a marker in Fort Pierce,Florida, where Hurston is believed to be buried.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

In Washington, President Pierce announced the appointment of Andrew Reeder to be governor of the Kansas territory.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

In nineteen fifty-nine, Hurston suffered a stroke and entered a nursing home in Fort Pierce,Florida.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Pierce had been a public official for more than twenty years when he became president.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

A third child was killed in a train accident shortly before Pierce was inaugurated.

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The election was in November. Pierce,the Democrat, won a crushing victory over Scott,the Whig.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Reeder went to Washington. He met with Pierce almost every day for two weeks.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

We will continue our story of the presidency of Franklin Pierce next week.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

One of Pierce's friends, the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, helped him with his campaign.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

President Franklin Pierce decided he should make someone else governor of Utah.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

Pierce's other opponent for the Democratic nomination was James Buchanan of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

He made friends easily. Those who knew Pierce best worried about this.

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President Pierce said the actions of the Free State Party seemed revolutionary.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Franklin Pierce was elected the fourteenth president in eighteen fifty-two.

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The Kansas legislature also sent a message to President Pierce.

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He wanted to warn President Pierce about what was happening.

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As a result, Pierce faced competition for the party's nomination.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

Franklin Pierce was from the northeastern state of New Hampshire.

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